Excerpt from "give me liberty, or give me death! " by patrick henry

sir, we have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. we have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne.

refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this speech. which statement best describes patrick henry's use of logos in this excerpt?

he explains what has occurred under his watch to reinforce his authority and knowledge on the subject.

he describes current events to create anger toward the british and present the moral argument for war.

he presents the crimes committed against the american people by the british government, to create outrage.

he lists the actions taken by america to ensure peace, to establish the reasons why war is inevitable.

The statement that best describes Patrick Henry's use of logos in this excerpt is "He lists the actions taken by America to ensure peace, to establish the reasons why was is inevitable".

According to Aristotle, logos is one of the three modes of persuasion. Logos is the appeal to reason in order to convince an audience. In this excerpt, Patrick Henry tries to convince his audience by citing facts, that is, by listing the actions taken by America to ensure peace as well as the response of the ministry and the Parliament. Therefore, in this speech, Henry presents the reasons why they should raise a militia and defend Virginia. Moreover, he constructs a logical argument when he states that Americans tried to ensure peace in a diplomatic way but the British did not want to hear them; therefore, they must declare war against Britain.

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this speech. Which statement best describes Patrick Henry's use of logos in this excerpt?

To be able to answer this question you must first be clear about what logos is.

Aristotle wrote more than 2,300 years ago in his famous Rhetoric that there are three types of persuasive arguments or modes of appeal in a discourse: those relating to ethos, pathos and logos.

The arguments linked to the logos are tied to the theme and to the message of the discourse itself, entering here in the domain proper of the Dialectic. Logical arguments supported by solid evidence are used, appealing to the reason and intelligence of the audience.

In the text, the speaker expresses that the war is imminent and can no longer be stopped. To support this assertion, the speaker lists a series of actions that America have been taken to avoid war and the rejection of their counterpart, which translates into war happening even if they didn't want it.

The author gave the list of action taken because they serve as arguments to convince the audience that they tried to stop this war but the other part did't want it. Basically it's a way to say that America is not the main responsable for this war.

He lists the actions taken by America to ensure peace, to establish the reasons why war is inevitable.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

answer: inference

explanation:

an inference can be understood as a conclusion to which a person is able to get based on reasoning. it is the same as a deduction, a guess, an assumption.   in the sentence presented, the conjunction "but" gives the readers an idea of contrast, and, therefore, allows them to induce that despite the opponent's characteristics, andrea had something different that made her win.